American Beer (2004)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Director:

Paul Kermizian

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

A Bockumentary

Plot:

In June of 2002, five friends left New York City by minivan and set out across the United States to visit 38 breweries in 40 days. |

Plot Keywords:

Brewery | Beer

Cast

Jeremy Goldberg	...	Himself
Paul Kermizian	...	Himself
Jon Miller	...	Himself
Robert Purvis	...	Himself (as Robert Purvis)
Richard Sterling	...	Himself
Fal Allen	...	Himself
Ken Allen	...	Himself
Tom Allen	...	Himself
Larry Bell	...	Himself
Sam Calagione	...	Himself
Dan Carey	...	Himself
Deb Carey	...	Herself
Bill Covaleski	...	Himself
David Geary	...	Himself
Mike Hale	...	Himself

Runtime:

USA:105 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Bainbridge Island, Washington, USA

Company:

Six Hundred Films

Movie Connections:

References The Adventures of Bob & Doug McKenzie: Strange Brew (1983)

The anti-Budweiser movie

A movie that seems to be about beer, but is really more about America and 38 of its small, independent brewers who are living out the American dream and struggling to survive (as one of them puts it) against a country gone corporate. Put down your Bud and start drinking local, people. Wake up! The only thing wrong was that I saw it in a theater and it just made me want to drink. The movie follows 5 guys who travel from brewery to brewery in a 40 day binge of good drinking and good living. The highlights were definitely the smallest guys - McNeill's brewery in Vermont, Climax Brewing in New Jersey, Hale's in Seattle, but it was nice to see some of the old guard of craft beer - Fritz Maytag of Anchor, also Sierra Nevada, Brooklyn, Yuengling. Needless to say, I rushed out to a bar immediately and downed a cold one. Cheers to good beer.